Cornbread Donuts | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with cornbread donuts. That's right, we are turning my favorite sweet cornbread recipe into donuts and then we will finish them with a fabulous spicy chipotle icing. And these were so good. If you don't serve these for dessert at your next barbecue, I'm not going to be mad, but I'm going to be very, very disappointed. And to get started, let's quickly mix up our dry ingredients, which will include some all-purpose flour, some cornmeal, some salt, of course, and then we'll also need some baking powder and its good friend and drinking buddy, baking soda.

And once everything's in there, we will take a whisk and we'll mix this for about 30 seconds until everything is thoroughly and evenly combined. And then we'll simply set that aside while we move on to the wet ingredients. And we'll start that by adding one large egg to a mixing bowl, followed by a little touch of white sugar. And then we'll grab that same whisk we just used.

And we will mix this for about a minute or until it becomes nice and light and

creamy looking. Oh, and fun fact, in the world of baking, sugar is considered a wet ingredient. And no, you did not need to know that, but now it's too late. And then once the mixture is looking a little something like this, we will stop and add our melted butter. And we will whisk it one more time for about 20 seconds or until it's all been nicely emulsified.

And once it has, we will stop and we will add some whole milk, followed by an equal amount of

buttermilk. And we will give that another quick mix. And yes, if you want, you can use all milk or all buttermilk, but I think it's better if we use both.